General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2023)

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Older boxes don’t always cope with the newer technology too well. If this impacts on performance, it makes Virgin look bad. So they either have to force you to change or they will deny that streamer to your box.

The same (Arris) boxes are also used for TV 360 and can be converted between the 2 formats, they seem to cope quite well with the extra apps. Although the Humax TV 360 boxes don't appear to have the same flexibility.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by epsilon

The same (Arris) boxes are also used for TV 360 and can be converted between the 2 formats, they seem to cope quite well with the extra apps. Although the Humax TV 360 boxes don't appear to have the same flexibility.

Yes, but the original TiVos can’t cope. Even the BBC i-Player struggles to work with them.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, but the original TiVos can’t cope. Even the BBC i-Player struggles to work with them.

Original flavour Tivos didn't cope well with apps even when they were new. If boxes are light on resources they will quickly become sluggish when the workload is increased.

[Mad Max]

I don't have a Tivo box, it's a V6 box that I have.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Agreed.

Just wish the competition would start installing around here…

Just rx’ed an email from OpenReach - well, when I say "update"…

I thought of your posts about BT in your area when they announced they were to shed a lot of staff because, partly, their broadband upgrade work would be completed soon!

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Coming soon:

The service holding the placeholder for Sky News UHD has been repurposed as Sky Sports Ultra HD 2. The provisional channel allocation is 539 but could possibly change, before launch, to the 535 slot cleared by the movement of Sky Racing HD.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by epsilon

Coming soon:

The service holding the placeholder for Sky News UHD has been repurposed as Sky Sports Ultra HD 2. The provisional channel allocation is 539 but could possibly change, before launch, to the 535 slot cleared by the movement of Sky Racing HD.

I seen your post on the other web site and was think it way too.

[Gavin-D]

Originally Posted by epsilon

Coming soon:

The service holding the placeholder for Sky News UHD has been repurposed as Sky Sports Ultra HD 2. The provisional channel allocation is 539 but could possibly change, before launch, to the 535 slot cleared by the movement of Sky Racing HD.

Could this one get used by Eurosport to show the French open in UHD?

They usually have a pop-up channel appearing this time of year for it

[TimeLord2018]

Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Could this one get used by Eurosport to show the French open in UHD?

They usually have a pop-up channel appearing this time of year for it

That's already testing aswell
https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.p...ve=209&lang=en

My guess would be Sky plan to use Ultra HD 2 for a 3rd Premier League game in UHD on Sunday.

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Originally Posted by Gavin-D

Could this one get used by Eurosport to show the French open in UHD?

They usually have a pop-up channel appearing this time of year for it

Eurosport UHD resurfaced earlier in the month on the 16th. Technically, the service is always there in the background, just hidden from the EPG and not carrying any elementary streams (audio, video etc). If you are interested, this is the post I made on DS Forums at the time. https://forums.digitalspy.com/discus...ment_102822000

[Mad Max]

How difficult is it to put an app on the V6 box?

[TimeLord2018]

Perhaps they choose not to , They see TiVo as legacy platform, Disney+ and UKTV app aren't on it either.


The reason ITVX is on the V6 is probably because its got content from ITV1 on it - a PSB

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Originally Posted by Mad Max

How difficult is it to put an app on the V6 box?

It depends how complicated the app is. I'm not sure how the V6 works with apps but, at its most basic, for many devices adding an app is a simple as providing an icon to make it easy to select the app and a URL for the html5 source. Not rocket science. Tweaking the app to display properly on each device should be the hardest part. Bloatware apps such as itvX will probably be more difficult.

[BenMcr]

There will be differences though in how the apps can integrate with the EPG and other platform specific features.

So there would still need to be one app for 360 / Stream and a separate similar version for V6.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

There will be differences though in how the apps can integrate with the EPG and other platform specific features.

So there would still need to be one app for 360 / Stream and a separate similar version for V6.

But a lot less complicated than, say, Freeview Play apps which have to work across hundreds of different devices. Sure, it's not completely straight forward, apps have to be designed to work properly with different resolutions etc. so an app designed for HD content fills a 4K screen when launched and not just a quarter of the screen (yes, I have seen apps do that). Launching apps from the EPG is niche but should be relatively simple as the EPG should simply launch an app rather than be integrated with it. So each device should have its own routine to launch any app from the EPG.